The Child Inclusive Intervention Group was associated with a number of effects not evident in the other treatment group with the strongest effects for fathers and for children. Significantly better outcomes at the one year post intervention point were observed including:
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lower acrimony in fathers in relation to their former spouses,
• greater improvement in the parental alliance for fathers,
• children’s experience of improved emotional availability of their fathers and greater sense of closeness to him,
• greater contentment by children with care and contact arrangements, and less inclination to want to change them,
• greater satisfaction of fathers with care and contact arrangements of their children, despite initially lower levels of overnight contact than the child focused fathers,
• greater stability of care and contact patterns over the year,
• preservation or improvement of the mother-child relationship from the perspectives of both mother and child, and
• children’s overall mental health tended to improve over the year after intervention, although 21% of children remained in the clinical range, in contrast to about 15% in the general population.
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